Plant Rescue Schedule
You must be a GNPS member to participate in plant rescues or a member may request that you attend one time as a guest before joining. To become a member, go to the membership page for instructions.
Plant Rescue Contacts:
Director of Plant Rescue: Lynn Almand or 770-886-9526
Deputy Director: Don Schwarz or 770-979-4237
Regional Coordinators
East and South Metropolitan Atlanta: Lynn Almand or 770-886-9526
West and North Metropolitan Atlanta: Sheri George or 770-612-0676
Site Procurement
East and South Metropolitan Atlanta: Andrea Greco or 404-606-3654
West and North Metropolitan Atlanta: Russell Brannon or 678-493-7229
Note: If you have expressed a desire to be notified by email about rescues and your email address changes, notify Ed McDowell who maintains the listserv for plant rescues.
The following rescues are scheduled.
Additional pop-up rescues may be scheduled. Notification for pop-ups will be sent via email.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Fulton, Roswell, Herman Miller, 11 am
Lead Facilitator: Marcia Winchester Sign Up For This Rescue
Co-facilitators: Ellen Honeycutt
Plants found: trout lilies, sweet shrub, rattlesnake fern, bloodroot, Christmas fern, geranium, star chickweed, dentaria heterophylla-slender toothwort, uvularia, wood anemone, Indian hemp.
Note: Rescue will include transplanting 1/3 of all collected trout lilies to an on-site nature trail.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Paulding County, New Georgia, The Georgian, 9 am
Lead Facilitator: Flo Hayes Sign Up For This Rescue
Cofacilitators: Gina Strickland, Mike Strickland
Plants found: Christmas fern, lady fern, resurrection fern, ginger, fairy wand, foam flower, azalea, hepatica, rattlesnake plantain, hearts-a-burstin, rue anemone, yellowroot, indian pink
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Cherokee County, Canton, The Bluffs, 9:30 am
Lead Facilitator: Marcia Dworetzky Sign Up For This Rescue
Co-facilitators: Sheri George, Ken Gohring, Karen McEnerny, Marcia Winchester
Plants: Cinnamon fern, green and gold, azaleas, fairy wand, viburnum (nudum and maple leaf), beaked hazelnut, blueberry, pussytoes, spotted wintergreen, hydrangea arborescens, Christmas fern, ginger, birds foot violet, trout lilies, partridgeberry, bigleaf magnolia
Gwinnett County, Grayson, Callie Still, 10 am
Lead Facilitator: Andrea Greco Sign Up For This Rescue
Co-Facilitator: Lynn Almand
Plants found: pawpaw, spotted wintergreen, moss, hawthorn, mountain mint, vaccinia, sparkleberry, spiderwort, several kinds of hypericum, red cedar, sassafras, black tupelo, ruellia, monarda (wild bergamot), green & gold, ebony spleenwort, passion flower, rudbeckia, pale Indian plantain, wild geranium, native azalea, flowering spurge, hearts-a-burstin', Christmas fern, maple-leaf viburnum, woodland phlox, aralia spinosa, Carolina silverbell.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Douglas County, Villa Rica, Mirror Lake, 9 am
Lead facilitator: Gina Strickland Sign Up For This Rescue
Co-facilitator: Flo Hayes, Mike Strickland
Plants found: ebony spleenwort, Christmas fern, rattlesnake fern, hepatica, black cohosh, fairy wand, rattlesnake plantain, ginger, spicebush, red cedar, chalk maple
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Fulton, Fairburn, Butner Rd., 10 am
Lead Facilitator: Susan Todd Sign Up For This Rescue
Co-facilitator(s): Keith Kaylor, John Little
Plants found: ferns - Christmas, cinnamon, New York, royal, ebony spleenwort; ginger; hearts-a-burstin'; low bush blueberry; native azaleas; spicebush; rattlesnake plantain; rue anemone; solomon's seal; trillium; jack-in-the-pulpit; uvularia; wild geranium; wood anemone; horse balm (collinsonia); and much more.
Paulding, Cartersville, Richland, 10am
Lead facilitator: Greg Kolhbacher Sign Up For This Rescue
Co-facilitators: Walter Bland, Ken Gohring, Marcia Winchester
Plants: Christmas fern, shuttleworth ginger, cinnamon fern, royal fern, big leaf magnolia, umbrella magnolia, foam flower, galax, pussytoes, musclewood, fly poison, skullcap, yellowroot, and low bush blueberry, blackeyed susan, spotted wintergreen, star chickweed.
This site requires a 3/4 mile hike to the rescue area and waterproof boots as there is a stream to cross.
Locating new rescue sites.
All rescuers are encouraged to assist in locating new rescue sites. The future of the plant rescue program depends on our ability to find developers who are willing to permit rescues on their property. If you see a site that is going to be developed, if it is something other than pasture land and has large trees and perhaps a creek, please write down the pertinent information about the site and give it to the facilitator leading your rescue, one of the contacts listed above, or the GNPS Webmaster.
Important information about attending a rescue.
1. Plant rescues are a benefit of membership. Memberships run from January 1 - December 31. Please keep your membership current. Those who don't renew their membership by March 31 will not be allowed to attend rescues. If you need to renew, there is an application form on the membership page.
2. If you attend a rescue, please try to arrive 15 minutes before the designated start time to sign the necessary paperwork. Those arriving after the designated start time may be denied access to the rescue.
3. It is strongly recommended that all rescue participants wear blaze orange clothing (vests, caps, etc.) during hunting season on all rescue sites. Various game hunting seasons overlap with the entire hunting season covering from approximately mid September through the end of February. Please obtain your own gear. If you need blaze orange items, the merchandise committee usually has caps and vests available at meetings.
4. All rescue sites are non-smoking. If you are a smoker, you must stay inside your own vehicle to smoke or leave the rescue site entirely. Please do not discard any smoking paraphernalia on the rescue site.
5. We encounter poison ivy on nearly all rescue sites, so prepare accordingly. Other seasonal hazards include mosquitoes, ticks, chiggers, yellow jackets, etc.
6. More information about rescue procedures is outlined on the Plant Rescue FAQ page.
How to sign up for a rescue.
To participate, sign up for a rescue as soon as possible to reserve a space.
It's easy! Just pick out one of the rescues listed above, click on Sign Up For This Rescue and follow the easy instructions! As a member, you will also receive an email for the next month's rescues and periodic emails if a pop-up rescue is scheduled.